Yoko Shimada
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- May 17, 1953
- Died
- July 25, 2022 (aged 69)
- Birthplace
- Kumamoto, Japan
Biography
Kumamoto City-born Shimada Yoko is best known in the west as Mariko from the 1980 mini-series Shogun. The lady-in-waiting role created an interest in Japan and its culture overseas and introduced Japanese history to foreign audiences. She won the Golden Globe For Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series - Drama category and was nominated for a Prime-time Emmy Award for her work on the serial in 1981. Shimada, who spoke some English for the serial, had been acting for years prior to Shogun however. She began learning ballet since age three and wanted to become a ballerina until her high high school days. Her family had moved to Tokyo when she was eight. She obtained an agent and began acting while in junior high school. The TV serial Zoku Hyouten made her famous beginning 1970. She released a nude photo book, called Kir Royal, in 1992. She was 39 and the photo book became a bestseller shifting half a million copies. At 57 she starred in an 'AV' pornography video called Mikkai in 2011. This was a tribute to her body even at that age. Shimada has a reservation for a space burial.
Known For
Photos
Filmography
Bridge
Movie
Kanon
Movie · as Sumiko
God in Jail
Movie
The Faithless Love
Movie · as Self
Mikkai
Movie · as Self
I Want to Meet Yoko Shimada
Movie
Dear Heart
Movie
The Deep Red
Movie · as Dr. Tanaka
Black Corridor
Movie
The Making of Shōgun
Movie
Undiscovered Tomb
Movie · as Ivy
The Sino-Dutch War 1661
Movie · as Matsu Tagawa
Sister Yakuza, Bodhisattva Ryuko
Movie
The Hunted
Movie · as Mieko
Gotoshi Co. Ltd. Special Police Department Crime Prevention Division No. 5104 Case
Movie
Crying Freeman
Movie · as Lady Hanada
Ring! Ring! Ring! The Champion Belt of Tears
Movie
Sunflower on the Hill
TV · as Yabe Fumi · 12 eps
Dohten
Movie
Slow Down
Movie
Kazu no Fūkei
Movie
Minamoto Yoshitsune
Movie · as Kaneuri Kichiji
Sea of Whitetail
Movie
津軽・青森ロマンチック殺人街道
Movie · as Kyoko
氷点
TV · 2 eps
Labyrinth Romanesque
Movie · as Tae Akimoto
The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma
Movie
My Champion
Movie · as Miki
Tuesday Suspense Theater
TV · 1 ep
Shogun
Movie · as Lady Toda Buntaro - Mariko
Shōgun
TV · as Lady Toda Buntaro - Mariko · 5 eps
Lupin the Thief: Enigma of the 813
Movie · as Mrs. Kesselbach
Dog of Fortune
Movie · as Reiko Kitamori
Dead Angle
Movie
Ōgon no Hibi
TV · as Hosokawa Gracia · 51 eps
Fushoku no kōzō
TV · as Majima Kumiko · 1 ep
The Inugami Family
Movie · as Tamayo Nonomiya
Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
Movie
I Am a Cat
Movie · as Yukie
Visitor After Dark
Movie · as Etsuko / Noriko
Kyukei no Koya
Movie
The Castle of Sand
Movie · as Reiko Takagi
Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn
Movie
First Love
Movie
Go Go Kamen Rider
Movie · as Hiromi Nohara
Brothers Serving Time
Movie
River Without a Bridge
Movie